Russia’s ambassador to Guyana, Nikolay Smirnov, says the Caribbean remains strong, spanning economic, tourism, communication, sports and politics.
However, the diplomat said that, like the Caribbean, Russia has to deal with issues of climate change, global warning and the economic crisis.
He further said that his countries would continue to use its influence in fora like the G20 and G8 “because as you know, traditional times we have quite friendly relations with a number of Caribbean countries like Cuba, Jamaica, Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, Guyana and we hope to continue”
But the diplomat said that while Russia may not be able to engage in direct investment in the search for oil and gas, it was nonetheless in a position to assist in “specific projects like the seismological study of the Caribbean Sea”.
He said the study “can be used for oil and gas research, to seismic study, fisheries and especially climate changes.
“All those things will be available to Caribbean countries free of charge because it will be done by Russian scientists with participation with local scientists if they will like and that data will be available without any pre conditions without any restrictions”.
“It is not as large as we will like to have due to the distance, maybe because of the competition from other countries in Latin America but we hope it will change…so we hope trade ties will be growing, tourism will increase because right now it’s on the rise to the Caribbean.
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